The tendency to destruction of public realm by the hegemony of neoliberal reason

Abstract

Starting from the arendtian distinctions of the concept of public as appearance, exhibition and publicity and public as sharing a common world I will try to show how our perception of reality is dependent on common sense. This own characteristic of the human condition submits all societies to the challenge of creating and maintaining a public realm, in which the different opinions can, in confronting each other and both with the perceived world, rise from the level of self-opinion to common vision of reality, thus making the world shareable. Next I present the characteristics of neoliberal reason to conclude that it can not found a public realm and even needs its destruction. I present this threat of the hegemony of neoliberal reason over contemporary common sense in terms of tendency, why the total destruction of public realm would also mean the extinction of human societies as social aggregation and politic, which has already been tried in totalitarian regimes and failed.